Space shuttle Endeavour has returned to California, its state of origin, 21 years after rolling out of the Palmdale assembly facility. At 12:50 p.m. PDT, Endeavour, mounted atop NASA’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), landed at Edwards A...
ir Force Base.
The aircraft completed the third leg of its cross-country ferry flight, which originated at 11:06 a.m. MDT with a departure from Biggs Army Air Field in El Paso, Texas, and included a flyover of Tucson, Ariz. These flyovers at 1,500 feet above locations along the flight path are made in cooperation with the Federal Aviation Administration.
Following an overnight stay, the SCA and Endeavour will complete the ferry flight with a salute to the Edwards Air Force Base area early Friday and a low flyby northbound to Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area. Next the aircraft will travel south, making a pass over NASA's Ames Research Center, Vandenberg Air Force Base and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory before heading into the Los Angeles area.
Finally, the SCA and Endeavour will land about noon PDT at Los Angeles International Airport, for an arrival ceremony before Endeavour is taken off the 747 and transported to its permanent home at the California Science Center next month.
The Article above is from the Antelope Valley Times.
The aircraft completed the third leg of its cross-country ferry flight, which originated at 11:06 a.m. MDT with a departure from Biggs Army Air Field in El Paso, Texas, and included a flyover of Tucson, Ariz. These flyovers at 1,500 feet above locations along the flight path are made in cooperation with the Federal Aviation Administration.
Following an overnight stay, the SCA and Endeavour will complete the ferry flight with a salute to the Edwards Air Force Base area early Friday and a low flyby northbound to Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area. Next the aircraft will travel south, making a pass over NASA's Ames Research Center, Vandenberg Air Force Base and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory before heading into the Los Angeles area.
Finally, the SCA and Endeavour will land about noon PDT at Los Angeles International Airport, for an arrival ceremony before Endeavour is taken off the 747 and transported to its permanent home at the California Science Center next month.
The Article above is from the Antelope Valley Times.
IF you wold like to see the flyover, it will be 7-7:30am tomorrow Sept. 21. Good veiwing Serria Highway and Ave N. I suggest you get there early, that corner will be packed. If there is any parking it will be on Ave N...... NOT NOT NOT Serria Highway.
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